{"id":238028,"date":"2026-05-30T03:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/brain-study-overturns-long-held-beliefs-about-how-humans-learn-speech"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T08:28:43","slug":"brain-study-overturns-long-held-beliefs-about-how-humans-learn-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/brain-study-overturns-long-held-beliefs-about-how-humans-learn-speech","title":{"rendered":"Brain Study Overturns Long-Held Beliefs About How Humans Learn Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-study-overturns-long-held-beliefs-about-how-humans-learn-speech2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that the brain\u2019s sensory systems play a much larger role in speech learning than previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that the brain\u2019s sensory systems play a much larger role in speech learning than previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}